Boothroyd (/ˈbuːθrɔɪd/ BOOTH-royd) is a settlement in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, just north of Boston Bar-North Bend. It sits on a flat, alluvial bench which is some of the only flat land in the Fraser Canyon. It was the site of a Cariboo Roadhouse, run by a man named Boothroyd. Later it was a camp for Canadian Pacific Railway Chinese construction workers from 1882 to 1884.[1]
The community was named after George Boothroyd (1829-1902). He and his brother kept a roadhouse here during the days of the Cariboo Road.[2]: 24
The BC Ministry of Environment has mapped Boothroyd in the Interior Douglas-fir zone, wet warm subzone (IDFww). Boothroyd is the first place where travellers heading north along the Trans-Canada Highway notice Ponderosa pine in considerable abundance as the climate becomes drier and more continental.
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- ^ BCGNIS entry "Boothroyd (community)"
- ^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1986), British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1997 ed.), Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0-7748-0636-2
49°31′26″N 121°25′52″W / 49.524°N 121.431°W